OMOTESANDO KOFFEE HONG KONG

This is certainly one of the main highlights of this trip and particularly today: reuniting with one of my MOST favorite coffee shops in the world: OMOTESANDO KOFFEE. I was pretty sad when hearing the news that they were closing their pop-up Tokyo store as I am seriously in love with the store (as you can see here). I have plan to visit to Omotesando Koffee, but initially not today. OK so it was actually quite funny, we were crossing the road after having our delightful coffee at The Cupping Room (review coming soon) and I accidentally looked at this guy crossing the road while holding a familiar plastic cup with black stripes, and in a micro second my mind knew it was OK! I literally shouted "hey that's Omotesando Koffee's plastic cup!", we checked Google Maps and it was just a 3 minute walk from our then location in Wan Chai, so yes, double jackpot of caffeine boost!

The Hong Kong outlet has a totally different design to the more "local" and "cultural" one in Tokyo (I know right I am so sad it's gone now), but it doesn't mean that I don't like it, I pretty much like it! It's not ultra spacious, but it is minimalist with a touch of industrial, a lot of humble and earthy tone and materials usage and still that signature cubical coffee booth of theirs that you can also see from their logo. There are two cubicles here but they only operated the other one (on the time of my visit), not sure why was that.

It was seriously super packed by the time of my visit that I had to grab my order and go (it's good though because the lighting was much better than the indoor), FYI before actually sitting you first have to buy the coffee and give the receipt to the barista in the cubical.

FULL HOUSE

They occupy La Marzocco Strada espresso machine and judging from the coffee that I had here (and not to mention their cold hands!), this is just pure beast!

They have pretty good range of drinks here and pretty much the same as the Tokyo one, expect to find selections of espresso, cappuccino, latte, mocha, banana coffee, Nutella coffee and matcha beverages. Most of them are available in "iced", and you can customize whether you want the single or double espresso shot! AAAND of course not to miss are their freshly baked custard cubes (available in original and matcha flavor) to accompany your coffee here! Price range for coffee starts from 40-70 HKD and custard cube is around 30 HKD each! We had both custard cubes but I personally forgot to snap the pics, but you can see what they look like HERE.

Hot Cappuccino (40 HKD), Iced Cappuccino (52 HKD)

If you're pretty shocked with the pricing, I gotta share you the hard truth: coffees are expensive in Hong Kong! I don't know how the locals see this but for Indonesian standard, the price is certainly double that what we're faced with back in town, nevertheless "value" and "worth" are different things, as long as I got good coffee I am all good. The first few sips brought so much memories of Japan, and I am just going to keep this short: STILL ONE OF THE BEST CAPPUCCINO I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE! Perfectly creamy with just the right everything (and naturally sweet too)! If you've been following me I think you know how I prefer my coffee sweet, but sadly they don't have brown or coconut sugar here.

Banana Coffee - HKD 65
Now something with more "flavor", this was actually Jack's order but I took a few sips to "evaluate" HAHA! The banana flavor balanced nicely with the coffee resulting this tea-ish taste on my palate, and believe me it's not a bad thing! It's altogether sweet, flavorful and creamy without tasting cheap and fake. If you actually like banana flavor (and don't mind having flavored coffee) then you should go with this one.

There was an event happening at the Lee Tung Avenue - Queen's Road (where Omotesando Koffee is located) and there were a lot of kids and families here. Spotted these two people dressed in costumes hanging around the spot with people around them queueing for pictures!

I LOVE MEETING YOU AGAIN OMOTESANDO KOFFEE <3, till the next time!

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Omotesando Koffee

Lee Tung Avenue

200 Queen's Road shop #24-25

East Wan Chai, Hong Kong

+852 2601 3323

Opening hours: 9 AM-9 PM

Average spending for two: HKD 140

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POSTCARDS FROM HONGKONG: DAY ONE

Hello guys, quick update here! I am just so damn happy to be back at one of my favorite cities on earth: HONG KONG! Here I am writing this blog post from my beautiful room in Shangri-La Kowloon (I highly recommend you guys to stay here, not the biggest Shangri-La I've known but neither does most hotel in Hong Kong), the room however was not a disappointment! It was bigger than I thought it would be. More pictures of the room coming on the next post or the full review of the hotel, but if you follow me on Snapchat, I have kinda toured you around earlier today!

In this post I am just going to show you some pictures from the first day of this trip! Heavy metal cafe hopping is coming tomorrow! Most of the pictures here are taken with my pocket camera and my phone, I haven't slept even for a second last night and that's how I am with early flights (a bit paranoid must admit) and I am not so much in the mood to take tons of pictures today, I hope you enjoy the pictures and please let me know if you have more recommendations on what to do or eat or whatever fun things here in Hong Kong.

PS: I am so very thankful for the huge amount of recommendations given to me mostly from Snapchat and email, I feel obese just by looking at them (and I think I will gain several kgs back but who gives a fudge *wink*).

Flew Cathay Pacific this morning, nope this is not in any form a sponsored trip, my buddy Jack won this contest held by Cathay Pacific, and together with Inijie and his fiance Ivanna we tag along on this trip to accompany Jack and definitely to have a lot of freaking fun!!! I love travelling with them, they just have this big ass appetite that nobody can handle (especially Jack)

Arrived on the T2 and went straight to buy Octopus card and TOTO to purchase CSL tourist sim card ("3" is cheaper, but I recommend this provider: fast 4G internet and 5 GB for 8 days, that should be enough), the card cost HKD 118 which I think is quiet cheap for 8 days of usage.

I did not eat on the flight as I was very tired and lost my appetite, but as soon as we landed, I couldn't hold my hunger and went to have a glass of milk tea here at this store below. The milk tea was everything that I like: perfectly creamy with proper sweetness without being overly milky!

Design on point! There was this Bruce Lee exhibition happening at this area, didn't manage to get good shots as it has to be seen in a certain way and people were constantly packing this area and taking pictures here, but again, it's on my Snapchat :).

Shangri-La is located at the Kowloon area, so we took the Airport Express to reach the hotel (HKD 60), FYI the hotel is literally like a stone away from the MTR station!

Hong Kong train is clean, just like Singapore!

MTR station

Shangri-La Kowloon chandelier, so ATAS looking.

First and highly satisfying dinner on the first day: BUTAO RAMEN which is A MUST VISIT for everyone's reading this right now. You should put that on your list or you're missing way too much!

Central night situation

A Starbucks store is located literally across our hotel and apparently they have this new delicious Mango drink! I am posting this on my Instagram soon.

That pretty much concludes the first day of my trip. Trying my best to update regularly, at least Sneak peak! Thank you for reading now off to bed zzzzzzzzz

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